How to smudge your home
Smudging your home with sage, Palo Santo or other tools, resin or, herbs or wood is a beautiful and sacred practice.
The popular practice is to clear out old, heavy energy and welcome in something fresh and light. If you’re feeling stuck, your space feels off, or you just want a fresh start, this ritual can help shift the energy around you. Here’s how you can do it:
1. Prepare Yourself and the Space
Take a moment to breathe. Close your eyes if you need to. This isn’t about rushing things it’s about being present.
Set a clear intention for the cleansing. What do you want to release? What do you want to invite in?
Something like: “I cleanse this space of all stagnant and heavy energy, and I invite peace, clarity, and love to fill every corner.”
Open a few windows or doors. This gives the energy a way to leave your space.
You don’t want it bouncing around so let it flow out.
2. Gather Your Tools
You’ll need:
- A sage bundle (white sage is traditional, but you can use other herbs like cedar or rosemary if they resonate with you).
- A fireproof bowl, an abalone shell, or even a simple ceramic dish to catch the ashes.
- Matches or a lighter.
- Optional: A feather or your hand to gently guide the smoke.
3. Begin the Smudging Ritual
Light the Sage or your bundle. Hold it at an angle and light the end. Let it catch fire for a few seconds, then gently blow it out until you see smoke rising.
Start at the Entrance. Begin at your front door, that’s the main portal… a door, a space, a crossing between two spaces is a portal.
That’s where energy flows in and out, so it’s a powerful starting point. Move through the house in a clockwise direction.
This is symbolic, it invites harmony and completion because we are used with a specific order.
Direct the Smoke with Intention. Slowly guide the smoke into the corners, around windows, doors, and even hidden spaces.
Trust your intuition it’ll tell you where to linger a little longer.
Speak Your Intention Aloud. This part is personal. You can say something simple like:
“I release all negative energy and invite peace and light into this home.”
Or make it your own. What matters is that your words come from the heart and not from a space of fear.
I’ll circle back to this idea later in this material.
4. Closing the Ritual
Once you’ve moved through the entire space, return to where you started. Thank the energy, the sage, and your home for receiving this cleansing.
Then extinguish the sage by pressing it into your fireproof bowl. Don’t use water unless you’re done with the bundle, it can make it hard to relight.
5. After the Smudge
Take a few deep breaths after the smoke is cleared. Sit for a moment in the stillness.
Can you feel the shift? The space will feel lighter, calmer more yours.
Leave the windows open for a while to let the air clear completely.
Repeat whenever you feel called to. After a stressful day, during a new moon, or just when you feel the energy could use a little more love.
That’s it, enjoy.
The Next Level Smudging
Well, this the extended version of the practice which can’t be found in books so pay attention to the process.
Using the following methodology, you can consciously store, convert and use non preferred energies in a more positive way.
Back to the mechanics of it.
First of all, energies can’t be destroyed only converted, transformed, alchemized.
Second, we can interact with energies (and entities) which are a match or in the range of our own frequency, at the same level (or above) as our vibration.
If we generate, or better yet, if we operate from a low vibration state, then we can pickup and interact with low-vibe energies, energetic parasites which some times find their way into our physical body as ill manifestations.
A high vibration entity which operates from a high frequency bandwidth, we can call it a dimension, is not “visible” so to speak to low vibe frequency entities. So the main question if you are dealing with such experiences is to ask yourself, why low vibe entities “feel comfortable” in your house/home or in your energetic field, your awareness, your body? And work from that point.
Working on yourself is one thing but when it comes to “home”…. “the thing is a bit more complex” because your own home/house has its own consciousness, an unique energetic signature like a family egregore so to speak… and even if it serves the owner, the current occupant(s) of the house it can take some conscious decisions on its own, like hiding the car keys or block doors or even trigger the doorbell or cut power off…
The entity of the house can collaborate with other entities to serve various purposes. No entity can exist in a hose or home if the entity of the home doesn’t allow it, in a similar way as we live on mother earth.
That being said, make your home a temple, be aware of, acknowledge it in a more conscious way because your home will assist and help you up to the edge of physical manifestations.
What energies reside in my home?
Your home will work with the energies you and others invite/bring in.
The house can do its own magic or energetic manifestations in physicality through the use of vortices, air currents, smoke, Hartmann lines so on.
Static energies from the corners, residual energies, frequencies and vibrations all can be manipulated in a subtle way by the entity of the house.
Have you ever experienced the heavy energies when visiting someone else’s home, or maybe a clean, uplifting, welcoming energy when visiting another’s home?
Some use Fengshui to manipulate home’s energy in a constructive and positive way, the strategic positions, materials, angles and attributes of objects can direct the flow of energy in space, in one’s home.
There is so much more behind smudging or “smoke-cleansing” the house.
Anyway, back to the main idea….
Why smoke? Why entities are reacting or interacting with smoke?
It is not just smoke, but the properties involved too.
Air and smoke are mediums which can embody forms or aspects of consciousness.
For some specific entities or energies it is easier to manifest in physical reality as smoke because it doesn’t require a denser structure. A denser structure means more energy into organizing that structure and keeping its form … but about that I’ll write with some other occasion.
Here’s a twist in perspectives, a wonderful approach which is not popular among practitioners of magic of any type.
Instead of moving the energies at the edge of your property you can make use of them. Sounds interesting? Remember? Energies can’t be destroyed…?!
When in a place of fear: I’ll do the cleansing and smudging and prayers because I believe some parasitic energies are draining my energy. Because you say it with such a powerful conviction, then reality is created and you will experience exactly that.
What does this tell you? Are you a creator of your own reality or a victim of circumstances?
So? how to use what you may define as a negative energy in a positive way?
The flow of energy is from within, from inside the home towards the door so, there is where we need to place the chair with the magical device you just made.
And unwanted energies are stored in the stone placed on the apex of the device. The crystalline structure of the mineral/stone makes it difficult for the denser energies to “escape” as it needs to disperse itself in specific orders, therefore chaotic energy is restructured and transformed into energy which can be used in a more positive way. Here you go, now you know how crystalline structures work on converting and even generating energies.
How to use the new energies?
I can suggest using them with positive affirmations to empower you and others.
Avoid using to harm somebody else because the energy will change itself to a less preferred one and take its place where back in the familiar spot from where it was removed in the first place… funny thing, energies tend to “remember” their “birthplace” so to speak.
Avoid fear based beliefs and fear as a general state because even if your intention and your words say a thing, your inner being is generating another frequency…. you might lie to yourself but your energy doesn’t.
- Use other crystals/stone or minerals to convert and charge other stones
- Charge individual symbols, sigils or complex constructions of symbols
- Create guardians, shields and warding for your property
Let’s extend the usability because we are creative enough to do that
Personal Energy Shielding and Protection
- Create an energetic shield around your body to protect yourself from negative influences or psychic attacks.
- Strengthen your aura and cleanse it of residual low-frequency energy.
Enhancing Meditation and Spiritual Work
- Deepen your meditative state, facilitating access to higher realms of consciousness.
- Connect with your higher self, spirit guides, or cosmic intelligence more clearly.
- Strengthen astral projection and lucid dreaming experiences.
Space Harmonization
- Use the energy to balance and harmonize the energetic grid of your home.
- Boost the vibration of the space for creative or spiritual activities.
- Charge objects like crystals, water, or talismans with this purified energy.
Healing and Emotional Transmutation
- Direct the energy into your body for chakra balancing and physical healing.
- Release emotional blockages or trauma, promoting emotional stability and peace.
- Enhance the healing properties of herbs, oils, or tinctures by charging them.
Manifestation and Intention Setting
- Focus the converted energy on manifesting your desires or amplifying affirmations.
- Charge intention cards or sigils with this energy to speed up manifestation.
Energy Work and Ritual Magic
- Empower spells, rituals, or ceremonial magic with amplified energy.
- Use it for grid work, combining it with crystals to amplify specific intentions.
- Boost the potency of elemental magic (earth, water, fire, air).
Communication with Nature and the Elements
- Channel the energy for plant healing and enhancing growth.
- Establish deeper communication with elemental forces, such as grounding energy through the earth element.
Psychic and Intuitive Development
- Activate and enhance your psychic abilities—clairvoyance, clairaudience, or clairsentience.
- Clear and open the third eye, improving intuitive insights.
Temporal Cleansing
- Send the energy backward or forward in time to heal past wounds or set future intentions.
- Perform karmic cleansing and ancestral healing.
Charging and Energizing Tools
- Energize sacred tools such as pendulums, tarot decks, or ritual knives (athames).
- Charge electronics with a protective or creative boost (intentionally balanced, of course!).
We are offered amazing opportunities to evolve through the conscious mind, through the logic back into spirituality and back into spirit. It is not a matter of who, but a matter of when.
Each experience is not limited to enriching only one’s path but also teaches many eyes.
Sharing the magic wisdom of the Observers
